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Children’s climate risk report 2026 thumbnail
Documents and publications

This report reveals how children’s exposure to multiple, overlapping climate hazards, inherent physical vulnerabilities, and the gaps in the social services they rely on, undermines their rights and increases their risk of harm.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Children in the classroom in a rural school in Jalal-Abad region / Kyrgyzstan
Update

Climate hazards have always occurred naturally, but human-induced global warming is changing much of the world as we know it.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Woman with red umbrella walking outdoors in hot weather against cloudless blue sky background.
Update

Dangerous heat, devastating rainfall and flooding, and severe drought affected millions of people across Asia in 2025, exacting a heavy human and economic toll.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
State of the Climate in Asia 2025 thumbnail
Documents and publications

The WMO State of the Climate in Asia 2025 reports that ocean heat, which has increased since the 1990s, reached a new record.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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Documents and publications

This report explores how governments can finance heat resilience through risk-informed investments, innovative financing mechanisms, and resilient infrastructure to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies from rising extreme heat risks.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Centre for Disaster Protection
National Disaster Management Authority (India)
Pathways to locally led adaptation: Lessons for effective climate resilience finance thumbnail
Documents and publications

The report distils what the Alliance has learned through working directly within planning and budgeting processes in 10 countries: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance
Predicting hydrological drought at global scale: an analysis of the CEMS seasonal forecasts thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study evaluates the performance of forecasts in detecting hydrological drought in the period 1991–2022 using the ECMWF reanalysis ERA5 as a proxy for the observational reference.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
Rethinking architectural education post-disaster: an analytical framework for curricular transformation after the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study conducts a comparative analysis of the presence and evolution of disaster and earthquake-focused courses in Turkish public and foundation universities between 2022 and 2025.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature)

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